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Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 10, 1997)
Full of ideas, observations, reasoning, a good philosophical diary of the XX century, from Soviet Union to USA and all in between. If you like intellectual power and exact formulations and easy but teaching reading - this is a book of choice.
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I find the book both insightful but inspiring. He leads us though his life in simple honest fashion in a way that lets us feel what it was like as well as what happened.
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stick a fork in me im cooked. i will never again buy a book with 'grief' in the title. Brodsky is clearly a Russian with many complex and paralyzing ideas. the work is an important one if you wish to complicate your life in the most introspective and self sabotaging way.
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Starting with an essay about his early life in Pieter (Saint Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, Saint Petersburg), Nobel-prize-winning Joseph Brodsky explores a variety of topics in great depth, going behind appearances to lasting meaning.
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